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Idiom: Win The Battle, But Lose The War

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How to pronounce "win the battle, but lose the war":

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To achieve a portion of a goal, but fail to achieve the entire goal.

Example: "By turning in that one assignment, you may have won the battle, but you never turned anything else in, so in the end you lost the war."

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